Coastal flooding and beach erosion from rising ... the city of Santa Monica and scientists from UC Santa Barbara to test the capacity of dune restoration to reduce coastal flooding.

Native wildflowers are now growing on Santa Monica Beach, which help sand dunes form to protect the beach from erosion and flooding (Credit: Lucy Sherriff) The small stretches of sand that were ...

Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, and Redondo Beach all made the same mistake ... the erosion they had created by pumping in sand from nearby dunes. In Los Angeles, the Hyperion dune field provided ...